From Andrea Shalal-Esa, Reuters:  The computer network on the U.S. Navy’s newest class of coastal warships showed vulnerabilities in Navy cybersecurity tests , but the issues were not severe enough to prevent an eight-month deployment to Singapore, a Navy official said on Tuesday.

A Navy team of computer hacking experts found some deficiencies when assigned to try to penetrate the network of the USS Freedom, the lead vessel in the $37 billion Littoral Combat Ship program, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. . . .

"We do these types of inspections across the fleet to find individual vulnerabilities, as well as fleet-wide trends," said the official. . . .

Defense Department spokeswoman Jennifer Elzea said the Pentagon’s chief weapons test agency addressed "information assurance vulnerabilities" for the Littoral Combat Ship in an assessment provided to the Navy.

"The details of that assessment are classified," Elzea said.  (photo: U.S. Navy)

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